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Beauty Regimes: A History of Power and Modern Empire in the Philippines, 1898-1941
PaperbackOriginal price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Genevieve Alva Clutario traces how beauty and fashion in the Philippines shaped the intertwined projects of imperial expansion and modern nation bu...
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Beauty Regimes: A History of Power and Modern Empire in the Philippines, 1898-1941
HardcoverOriginal price $104.95 - Original price $104.95Original price $104.95$123.99$123.99 - $123.99Current price $123.99| /In Beauty Regimes Genevieve Alva Clutario traces how beauty and fashion in the Philippines shaped the intertwined projects of imperial expansion an...
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The Girls Ate Last
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /This book tells the story of Inder Kaur, an Indian woman growing up in the early 20th century. Girls were expected to eat last after the men and bo...
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Love Found and Lost: The Kim Vui Story
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /War has a way of annihilating not just individual combatants and civilians caught in the maelstrom, but also the cultural memories of the defeated....
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Fairest: A Memoir
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Finalist for the 2021 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction "Talusan sails past the conventions of trans and immigrant memoirs." —The...
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Abundance: Sexuality's History
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /In Abundance, Anjali Arondekar refuses the historical common sense that archival loss is foundational to a subaltern history of sexuality, and that...
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Strangers in the Family: Gender, Patriliny, and the Chinese in Colonial Indonesia
HardcoverOriginal price $125.00 - Original price $125.00Original price $125.00$152.99$152.99 - $152.99Current price $152.99| /In Strangers in the Family, Guo-Quan Seng provides a gendered history of settler Chinese community formation in Indonesia during the Dutch colonial...
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Strangers in the Family: Gender, Patriliny, and the Chinese in Colonial Indonesia
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /In Strangers in the Family, Guo-Quan Seng provides a gendered history of settler Chinese community formation in Indonesia during the Dutch colonial...
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Women in Revolution & National Minorities and the Right to Self-Determination
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /Women all over the world are driven by their dire situation to unite and fight for their rights. From year to year, as the global crisis worsens, t...
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Untamed Shrews: Negotiating New Womanhood in Modern China
HardcoverOriginal price $46.95 - Original price $46.95Original price $46.95$63.99$63.99 - $63.99Current price $63.99| /Untamed Shrews traces the evolution of unruly women in Chinese literature, from the reviled "shrew" to the celebrated "new woman." Notorious for he...
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Visions of Marriage: Politics and Family on Kinmen, 1920-2020
HardcoverOriginal price $135.00 - Original price $135.00Original price $135.00$156.99$156.99 - $156.99Current price $156.99| /Grounded in multi-generational stories from Kinmen in Taiwan, Visions of Marriage explores the historical entanglements between the pursuit of new...
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Involuntary Consent: The Illusion of Choice in Japan's Adult Video Industry
HardcoverOriginal price $85.00 - Original price $85.00Original price $85.00$101.99$101.99 - $101.99Current price $101.99| /The popularity of pornography is predicated on the idea that those participating have given their consent. That is what allows the porn industry to...
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Involuntary Consent: The Illusion of Choice in Japan's Adult Video Industry
PaperbackOriginal price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /The popularity of pornography is predicated on the idea that those participating have given their consent. That is what allows the porn industry to...
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Dictatorship of Sex: Lifestyle Advice for the Soviet Masses
PaperbackOriginal price $45.95 - Original price $45.95Original price $45.95$61.99$61.99 - $61.99Current price $61.99| /The Dictatorship of Sex explores the attempts to define and control sexual behavior in the years following the Russian Revolution. It is the firs...
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Encountering Kali: In the Margins, at the Center, in the West / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Encountering Kali explores one of the most remarkable divinities the world has seen—the Hindu goddess Kali. She is simultaneously understood as a...
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Sexuality in China: Histories of Power and Pleasure
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$44.99$44.99 - $44.99Current price $44.99| /What was sex like in China, from imperial times through the post-Mao era? The answer depends, of course, on who was having sex, where they were l...
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Gender and Sexuality in Modern Chinese History
PaperbackOriginal price $31.99Original price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Gender and sexuality have been neglected topics in the history of Chinese civilization, despite the fact that philosophers, writers, parents, doc...
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Resisting Disappearance: Military Occupation and Women's Activism in Kashmir
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /In Kashmir's frigid winter a woman leaves her door cracked open, waiting for the return of her only son. Every month in a public park in Srinagar...
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Sex, Sexuality, and the Constitution: Enshrining the Right to Sexual Autonomy in Japan
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$122.99$122.99 - $122.99Current price $122.99| /A rigorously detailed argument for sexual autonomy as a constitutional right, a position with far-reaching implications for government policies. As...
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